After a physically demanding National Team Trials at the end of November at its Centre of Excellence in Montreal, Synchro Canada is pleased to announce the athletes who have been named to its Senior National Team and Senior NextGen Team. One [...]
Canada’s Olympic Synchronized Swimming Duet of Jacqueline Simoneau, 20, Saint-Laurent, Quebec and Karine Thomas, 27, Gatineau, Quebec plans to compete again. This time the duo’s goal will be to represent Canada at the 2017 FINA World Championships next July in Budapest, [...]
Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Sport Officer (CSO) is a new position at Synchro Canada that has overall responsibility for designing and evaluating all elements of Synchro-in-Canada’s high performance system and for overseeing the implementation of the organization’s sport development [...]
Synchro Canada’s Centre of Excellence (COE) Trials get underway this week in Montreal. The event will run from November 24-27 at the Institut National du Sport (INS) du Québec, The 2016 Selection Trials consist of a number of different evaluations assembled [...]
More than 250 athletes will converge on the city of London, Ontario for the 2017 Synchro Canada Espoir Synchronized Swimming Championships. The athletes participating in the event will range in age from 11 to 15 and will come from across Canada [...]
What began as the simple joy of playing in the water as a young child led to an international athletic career when Annabelle Frappier started synchronized swimming at the age of 7. Drawn initially to the artistic side of the sport, she [...]
The second year of Synchro Canada’s Regional Training Centre (RTC) is underway in Toronto, Ontario. The Centre, a new model in high performance development, opened last September at the Toronto Pan Am SportCentre (TPASC) pool. Leading the coaching team for a second [...]
Synchro Canada unveiled its 2016 Annual Award winners at its Annual Meeting & Convention last weekend in Montreal, QC. Here are the winners. Athlete of the year Karine Thomas, QC This award recognizes athletes of Synchro [...]
Synchro Canada’s Board of Directors welcomed a new member this weekend as Margie Schuett was elected to a two-year term at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Montreal. Mrs Schuett, from Calgary, AB, brings extensive volunteer experience in the area of high-performance [...]
Congratulations to Louise Kennedy, from Victoria, BC, who was selected by FINA to be the Canadian judge for the synchronized swimming event at the Rio Olympics. Louise started her judging career in 1975, after retiring from the sport as an athlete. [...]
